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Thursday, October 1, 2020

Future Fridays: Debate or Death

It is Wednesday, the 30th of September, and the day after the first presidential debate between Pres. Trump and Vice Pres. Biden. I am sitting at my desk in our home (still self-isolating) listening to meditative music to put down my thoughts…trying to calm myself after last night’s debate…still.  I am angry, stunned, and feeling hopeless which fuels the anger.

I should not be so surprised by the debate, but I still am…flabbergasted in fact.  I will just take one question from the debate…

Do you believe in the science of climate change?

Pres. Trump went off on the fires in California…where part of my family live now in Sonoma County breathing in ashes, smoke and wondering if they will be evacuated.  He said the fires are due to bad forest management and besides a billion trees are being planted.  That’s his plan!

President Trump - Vice-President Biden  Shutterstock licensed photos

Climate change is an existential threat to life on the planet.

I wish Chris Wallace had asked him more about the rise in storms and the severity which has nothing to do with forest management, but the reality of that particular debate was that no real question got a serious answer as the president…MY president…blustered, interrupted, and bomb-basted everything Biden said and everything Wallace asked.

Biden was better but he had a difficult time getting words in…I’m sure the stress added to his speech impediment: but several times he called Pres. Trump “a clown.” 

Climate change is a serious topic.  Debates NOW should only be about what we are doing and will do next week to slow the heating of the planet’s atmosphere and oceans…not whether it is true or not and certainly not blaming everyone else like China for the problem especially as the president has rolled back one law after another to slow carbon emissions.

We as U.S. citizens have to continue to remember we benefited as well as polluted the air with the industrial revolution.  We are addicted to cars and comfort and as a result our nation is one of the largest carbon polluters globally of the air that the rest of the world has to breathe.  We also have to remember any global effort being made is without the U.S. now, since MY president pulled MY nation out of the Paris Climate Accords.

How in the world can we go on like this?

Oh! and by the way this meditative music is not helping one single bit.

-Kathleen

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